The Feminist Spectator ruminates on theatre, performance, film, and television, focusing on gender, sexuality, race, other identities and overlaps, and our common humanity. It addresses how the arts shape and reflect our lives; how they participate in civic conversations; and how they serve as a vehicle for social change and a platform for pleasure. It’s accessible to anyone committed to the arts’ political meanings.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Chely Wright, Wish Me Away

The Feminist Spectator has posted a new item:

"Coming Out
Stories: Chely Wright, Wish Me Away" . . .

Chely Wright is a country music singer who debuted in
1994 and achieved her life’s dream by becoming part of the Grand Ole Opry
tradition, recording several Top 40 and number one songs, including “Shut Up
and Drive” and “Single White Female.” In 2010,
she publicly came out as a lesbian, after 20 years of maintaining the
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I'm a writer who loves going to the theatre and the movies, watching television, reading novels, and then thinking about what all of it means. I teach at Princeton University, in the English Department and in the Lewis Center for the Arts Theatre Program. I also direct Princeton's Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies. I believe in quality writing about the arts and the importance of the arts to social life. I also believe the arts do and should give us pleasure and hope, as well as inspiring our creativity and a more expansive sense of what our lives together can be.